Novel Full Chapter 138 - Hardships (6)
Since Billy helped with his spear skills instead of magic, they did some progress on that day, but not by much. In any case, he could tell that everyone was looking pretty tired and they lacked the usual excitement. One week had passed since they had been exploring the dungeon and they were only on the second level, after all.
Billy did some research and he confirmed that only five parties could clear the dungeon right now and only one hundred and so Adventurers had the skills to survive the second floor, but telling them that didn't help.
"I suppose it can't be helped… Let's motivate them by showing them how it is done," Billy thought.
Billy decided to put that plan into action. While the monster had high affinity with water, ice attacks still will he troublesome since they could take a huge chunk of the monster's body. However, Billy couldn't use those well and he wanted to fight with his spear… so he decided to enchant it with ice magic. How could he do that? He had no idea… but Billy had a night to figure it out.
After thinking for a while, Billy came up with a theory. What if he transmitted his mana to the spear tip like he did with Kate's lungs? It would make it sharper and more durable, certainly… But what about the elemental properties? Just packing wind and water magic on the tip wouldn't do it… However, Billy found his answer after a few attempts. Once he packed the tip of the spear with mana, the energy began to be absorbed when created ice around it as well… despite that, the ice didn't grow, but Billy could feel the temperature around decreasing a bit. There was nothing around that Billy could test it, so he had to wait until the next day.
Alexander had noticed that something was off when he saw Billy practicing and thinking silently in the room, and the others reached the same conclusion when they saw Billy's spear… It was only noticeable from up close, but those who have been messing around with magic for a while could see and feel a large amount of mana in Billy's spear.
He didn't fight the crabs, so they had to wait until the second level. Once they reached it, Billy charged at the first golem and sliced them up with a single motion from head to toe. He didn't use any skill and yet, he didn't find any Resistance. At first, nothing happened, but half of the monster fell to the side and the other half wasn't regenerating. That was because a good part of the other had been frozen.
"As expected, they have enough mana to create ice, but they can't use it that well… they only decrease the temperature to bother the enemies," Billy said.
It was quite crazy that a monster made of water could have such weakness against ice, but maybe they were made of water because it was easier for them to move the core.
"That was pretty awesome…" Kate said.
"It is not over yet," Billy said.
Billy had to attack three other times until the golem core was reached by the ice and was unable to control the mana outside. Once that happened, dealing critical damage was easy… In any case, Billy also confirmed that it was a pretty efficient way to deal with them. It was hard to know if it was due to the level of his skills or due to his high magic, but he had put two hundred points of mana in his spear, and only four had been used… one for a strike.
You obtained 150 experience points.
The skill Wind Manipulation obtained 75 experience points.
The skill Spearmanship obtained 75 experience points.
The skill Water Manipulation obtained 75 experience points.
"This requires more experimentation…." Billy said while nodding to himself.
Thanks to Billy's new ability, the group began to proceed a lot faster. Using his skills alone, Billy defeated fifty Golems, after all. Still, that wasn't enough, so he also buffed Alexander and Natalie's weapons. Once they realized that the enemies were no longer a threat to them thanks to that, their eagerness to fight returned and they also made mental notes to practice their magic. They want to be able to do that as well…
"Do you feel like your spear is lighter?" Lily asked. "I imagined that using wind magic would do that to my arrows…"
"No, but the piercing power increased," Billy replied.
It would be really convenient if the weapons could become faster just by the addiction of wind magic. If that were possible, Billy and Alexander could become insanely fast and overwhelm any opponent by using their weapons Quick Spear and wind magic.
Regardless, around noon, the group found the entrance to the third level of the dungeon. That was some choking progress given that they had to walk for quite a bit… with their current walking speed, it will take at least two hours to reach the exit. Still, that was fine. They still had a chance to reach the final room…
In any case, once they sold the cores in the guild, they hurried up to the inn. Billy imagined that his friends would ask him to teach them how to use that new skill, but instead of that, they all went to Meditate. They assumed that they would need to increase their skill with magic if they wanted to reach that level… while it was true, Billy could always tell them a short cut… they just had to infuse their mana in the tip of their weapons and Billy would do the rest by adding the elemental property. That was a simple trick…
"Well, I suppose this is fine as well… they are growing up," Billy nodded to himself while he was thinking about that.
Billy wanted to experiment enchanting his weapon with other elements, but since they wouldn't be necessary for that dungeon, he decided to meditate… he used a lot more mana than everyone, after all.